Creating the American West: Boundaries and Borderlands By Derek R. Everett
2014 | 322 Pages | ISBN: 0806144467 | PDF | 113 MB
Boundaries-lines imposed on the landscape-shape our lives, dictating everything from which candidates we vote for to what schools our children attend to the communities with which we identify. In Creating the American West, historian Derek R. Everett examines the function of these internal lines in American history generally and in the West in particular. Drawing lines to create states in the trans-Mississippi West, he points out, imposed a specific form of political organization that made the West truly American. Everett examines how settlers lobbied for boundaries and how politicians imposed them. He examines the origins of boundary-making in the United States from the colonial era through the Louisiana Purchase. Case studies then explore the ethnic, sectional, political, and economic angles of boundaries. Everett first examines the boundaries between Arkansas and its neighboring Native cultures, and the pseudo war between Missouri and Iowa. He then traces the lines splitting the Oregon Country and the states of California and Nevada, and considers the ethnic and political consequences of the boundary between New Mexico and Colorado. He explains the evolution of the line splitting the Dakotas, and concludes with a discussion of ways in which state boundaries can contribute toward new interpretations of borderlands history. A major theme in the history of state boundaries is the question of whether to use geometric or geographic lines-in other words, lines corresponding to parallels and meridians or those fashioned by natural features. With the distribution of western land, Everett shows, geography gave way to geometry and transformed the West. The end of boundary-making in the late nineteenth century is not the end of the story, however. These lines continue to complicate a host of issues including water rights, taxes, political representation, and immigration. Creating the American West shows how the past continues to shape the present.

Constraint-Handling in Evolutionary Optimization by Efrén Mezura-Montes
English | PDF | 2009 | 273 Pages | ISBN : 3642006183 | 3.4 MB
An efficient and adequate constraint-handling technique is a key element in the design of competitive evolutionary algorithms to solve complex optimization problems. This edited book presents a collection of recent advances in nature-inspired techniques for constrained numerical optimization. The book covers six main topics: swarm-intelligence-based approaches, studies in differential evolution, evolutionary multiobjective constrained optimization, hybrid approaches, real-world applications and the recent use of the artificial immune system in constrained optimization. Within the chapters, the reader will find different studies about specialized subjects, such as: special mechanisms to focus the search on the boundaries of the feasible region, the relevance of infeasible solutions in the search process, parameter control in constrained optimization, the combination of mathematical programming techniques and evolutionary algorithms in constrained search spaces and the adaptation of novel nature-inspired algorithms for numerical optimization with constraints.

Erica Weiss, "Conscientious Objectors in Israel: Citizenship, Sacrifice, Trials of Fealty "
English | ISBN: 081224592X | 2014 | 216 pages | PDF | 2 MB
In Conscientious Objectors in Israel, Erica Weiss examines the lives of Israelis who have refused to perform military service for reasons of conscience. Based on long-term fieldwork, this ethnography chronicles the personal experiences of two generations of Jewish conscientious objectors as they grapple with the pressure of justifying their actions to the Israeli state and society-often suffering severe social and legal consequences, including imprisonment.

Concise Complex Analysis: A Solution Manual of Selected Exercise Problems
English | 2023 | ISBN: n/a | 72 Pages | PDF | 6 MB
I like Gong's book better, not only because it's more concise but also because it has a nice presentation of Weierstrass Factorization Theorem and Mittag-Leffler Theorem. What were clever tricks in Euler's Introduction to the Analysis of the Infinite now have a unified and much simpler treatment.

Computer Science to the Point:
Computer Science for Life Sciences Students and Other Non-computer Scientists
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3658384425 | 328 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 10 MB

Computational Vision and Bio-Inspired Computing: ICCVBIC 2019 by S. Smys
English | PDF | 2020 | 1435 Pages | ISBN : 3030372170 | 156 MB
This proceedings book presents state-of-the-art research innovations in computational vision and bio-inspired techniques. Due to the rapid advances in the emerging information, communication and computing technologies, the Internet of Things, cloud and edge computing, and artificial intelligence play a significant role in the computational vision context.

Computational Science and Its Applications - ICCSA 2018: 18th International Conference, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, July 2-5, 2018, Proceedings, Part V by Osvaldo Gervasi
English | PDF | 2018 | 800 Pages | ISBN : 3319951734 | 103.84 MB
The five volume set LNCS 10960 until 10964 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications, ICCSA 2018, held in Melbourne, Australia, in July 2018.

Computational Materials, Chemistry, and Biochemistry: From Bold Initiatives to the Last Mile: In Honor of William A. Goddard's Contributions to Science and Engineering by Sadasivan Shankar
English | EPUB | 2021 | 1344 Pages | ISBN : 3030187772 | 289 MB
This book provides a broad and nuanced overview of the achievements and legacy of Professor William ("Bill") Goddard in the field of computational materials and molecular science. Leading researchers from around the globe discuss Goddard's work and its lasting impacts, which can be seen in today's cutting-edge chemistry, materials science, and biology techniques. Each section of the book closes with an outline of the prospects for future developments.

Computational Approaches in Physics (Iop Concise Physics) by Maria Fyta
English | November 1, 2016 | ISBN: 1643278398 | 136 pages | PDF (Converted) | 5.68 Mb
Computational Approaches in Physics reviews computational schemes which are used in the simulations of physical systems. These range from very accurate ab initio techniques up to coarse-grained and mesoscopic schemes. The choice of the method is based on the desired accuracy and computational efficiency. A bottom-up approach is used to present the various simulation methods used in Physics, starting from the lower level and the most accurate methods, up to particle-based ones. The book outlines the basic theory underlying each technique and its complexity, addresses the computational implications and issues in the implementation, as well as present representative examples. A link to the most common computational codes, commercial or open source is listed in each chapter. The strengths and deficiencies of the variety of techniques discussed in this book are presented in detail and visualization tools commonly used to make the simulation data more comprehensive are also discussed. In the end, specific techniques are used as bridges across different disciplines. To this end, examples of different systems tackled with the same methods are presented. The appendices include elements of physical theory which are prerequisites in understanding the simulation methods.

Barry Godfrey, Clive Emsley, Graeme Dunstall, "Comparative Histories of Crime"
English | 2003 | pages: 237 | ISBN: 1843920360, 1843920379 | PDF | 5,0 mb
This book aims to both reflect and take forward current thinking on comparative and cross-national and cross-cultural aspects of the history of crime. Its content is wide-ranging: some chapters discuss the value of comparative approaches in aiding understanding of comparative history, and providing research directions for the future; others address substantive issues and topics that will be of interest to those with interests in both history and criminology. Overall the book aims to broaden the focus of the historical context of crime and policing to take fuller account of cross-national and cross-cultural factors.